Appliance Accents

• Pair a satin finish aluminum oven, refrigerator and dishwasher with cherry stained cabinetry and unpolished blue granite countertops. Cover the floor with oxblood vinyl tiles that accent the pink tones in the unpolished travertine lining the backsplashes behind the cabinets and sink. Installing a shallow satin finish aluminum farmhouse kitchen sink may help match the appliances instead of traditional porcelain. Place a sideboard in cherry and blue granite on one end of the kitchen as a kitchen island substitute.
  
  

Kitchen Office

• Give your computer and technology a place in the kitchen. Create a cubby hole desk from clear plastic resin and oak framing that tucks under oak glass-front cabinets with old-fashioned icebox handles and fasteners. Set up your computer on this desk, and continue with oak cabinetry next to the desk with a brushed aluminum backsplash. You can hang a small flat screen TV beneath the glass-front covers to watch cooking shows while trying out their newest recipes.
  
  

Bar Seating

• Revamp a three-quarter wall between the kitchen and family area into a bar seating area. Cover the bar in dark beadboard paneling, and add colorful orange and yellow resin and metal bar stools to the family room side of the bar. Opening up the kitchen side of the bar as wine bottle or soda storage racks or pull out drawers works well. Place a glass dining table on the opposite side of the kitchen with resin chairs to match the bar stools.
  
  

Copper Plated

• Cover the floor with light unpolished cement tiles. Stain the kitchen cabinetry a dark mahogany, and add a copper hood over the stove and copper backsplashes and kickplates above and beneath the cabinets. Wrap the countertops with burnt orange porcelain tiles with small cobalt blue diamond-shaped tile spacers. Install a black metal-faced stove, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher and garbage disposal. Stackable modular glass and metal tables and chairs can be combined into different seating arrangements in the kitchen.